"If I Try To Leave" lyrics

"If I Try To Leave"

If I try to leave
I won't know where I'm going
If I reach up my sleeve
I'll find my compass broken
Aw, who would take my place
If I were to go?
If I were to leave
For destinations unknown

If I try to leave
And find another future
Leave you in your grief
And other desperate measures
Some animals survive
But I only play dead
If I were to leave
From my own beloved

The same old town
But I don't make the same rounds
The same old man
But I ain't with the old crowd

I don't have to try hard
Loving you is easy
You know sometimes I wish
That you'd still try to teach me
Let love do me in
Love me 'til the end
I could never leave
You know I'd lose an old friend

The same old town
But I don't make the same rounds
The same old man
But I ain't with the old crowd

If I try to leave
I won't know where I'm going
If I reach up my sleeve
I'll find my compass broken

The same old town
But I don't make the same rounds
The same old man
But I ain't with the old crowd


Writer(s): Christopher Dale Ryan, Dennis Michael Ryan, Ian Patrick O'Neil, John Joseph McCauley Iii
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